Lucy R. Littler, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Dr. Littler is a Senior Lecturer in the聽English聽Department聽and the Faculty Director of the聽Foundations General Education Program.
In these roles,聽she teaches innovative composition 补苍诲听American literature courses聽at multiple levels of the curriculum and administers organizational and pedagogical support for faculty across divisions.
Dr. Littler's research interests include the dynamics of race in American culture, composition studies, 补苍诲听the science of teaching and learning. Her work has been published in 补苍诲听. She has given presentations at a number聽of professional meetings, including the聽, the, the聽, and the聽.
Education
BA, North Carolina State University
MA, Appalachian State University
PhD, Florida State University
Courses Taught
Dr. Littler teaches classes that purposefully blur the imagined boundaries between "academic" and "real world" problems, asking students to critically re-examine the world they know through analysis of literary and cultural texts, and through their own writing. Her proudest professional moments include students realizing their聽power in a world that needs their creativity and innovation.听
Classes I have taught at Rollins include:
- ENG 140 (First-Year聽Composition)
- Writing about Rollins
- Writing about Love
- Writing about the American Dream
- Racial Fictions: Interdisciplinary Foundations Program Capstone
- American Dreams; American Nightmares
- Love Stories in American Literature
- Literary Selfies: American Stories of Self-Making
- Crossing Borders in Contemporary American Literature
- American Adolescence: Coming of Age in the Civil Rights Era
- Reimaging the Past in Contemporary American Fiction
Research & Publications
My research and teaching are inextricably linked. In addition to exploring the dynamics of race in American literature and culture, I'm interested in how teachers teach and how students learn. Specifically, I want to find ways to help students transfer what they learn from one situation to the next, from the classroom to the world beyond it.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Chick, Nancy, Lucy Littler and Emily Russell, 鈥淪urfacing Disciplinarity: Citation as a Site for Integrative Learning,鈥澛�Arts and Humanities in Higher Education.听Forthcoming.
Littler, Lucy. 鈥淭he Implications of 鈥楥hosenness鈥�: Unsettling the Exodus Narrative as a Model for Black Liberation in Randall Kenan's聽A Visitation of Spirits,鈥澛�The Southern Literary Journal, Fall 2011.
Open Access Resource Publications
鈥淭eaching with Popplet,鈥澛�Open Access 小猪视频, Associated Colleges of the South, Summer 2017.
鈥淭eaching with Instagram,鈥澛�Open Access 小猪视频, Associated Colleges of the South, Fall 2015.
Selected Conference Presentations:
鈥淐reating an Integrative Gen Ed Program through Intentional Faculty Development,鈥澛燗merican Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U), Network Meeting on General Education and Assessment, February 2020.
"A Pedagogy of Brave Space: Diversity and Inclusion Beyond the High Impact Classroom," American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), Network Meeting on Diversity, Learning and Student Success, March 2018.
鈥淏lending to Help Students LEAP: Achieving Curricular Goals and Preserving Student Autonomy,鈥� Conference on Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts, Bryn Mawr, May 2017.听
鈥淏eyond the Flip: Blended Learning in the Literature Classroom,鈥� Conference on Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts, Bryn Mawr, May 2015.听
鈥淒efining Blackness in the Promised Land: Exodus and Racial Belonging in Gloria Naylor鈥檚聽Mama Day,鈥� Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW), Denver, CO, October 2012.
鈥淓thnicity as Commodity: Multiculturalism and American Exceptionalism in聽Mona in the Promised Land,鈥澛燦ortheast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Rochester, NY, March 2012.
鈥�(De)Naturalizing Whiteness as Commodity: Race as Realist Narrative in E. L. Doctorow鈥檚聽Ragtime,鈥� College English Association (CEA), St. Petersburg, FL, April 2011
鈥淭he Double Consciousness of Barnum Kinsey: How Whiteness Traumatizes White聽People in Edward P. Jones鈥檚聽The Known World,鈥澛燦eMLA, Montreal, Canada, April 2010.